“Yes, You Can Come In.”
Elki shares that with a more inclusive approach, access to her local playground is a powerful reminder that disabled parents belong in everyday family spaces.
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Member’s Voice
Posts from and by Forum members.
Living with Epilepsy
Thank you to Christina Olivant for sharing her experiences of living with epilepsy. My first absence seizure happened on Christmas Eve 2016, during my first watch of “The Holiday” with my mum, dad, and sister, when I got up to go into kitchen. Suddenly I was in the hospital and with everyone as confused as
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Public Participation at CYC Full Council 27/03/25
Four of our members took part in the public participation section of the City of York full council meeting on 27th March 2025. Below is a text copy of their speeches.* You can also watch the speeches from 09:25 on the council’s webcast of the meeting. You can watch the council debate on the motion
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From Diagnosis to Podcast: Sharing my Crohn’s Story
Hi, I’m Olivia. I’m a student at York St John University, and I’ve been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease since July 2019. My journey with Crohn’s has been anything but easy, but over the years I’ve come to learn that sharing my experiences is both healing and empowering – not just for myself, but for others
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Victorian Healthcare
A blog about how healthcare and medicine is designed for men, and how women and other marginalised genders continue to face barriers in healthcare.
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Disability Invisibility in Conflict
The media rarely considers the impact of being disabled in war zones, apartheid states, colonised and exploited countries, and as a result our unique concerns and experiences go under the radar and are rendered invisible. As highlighted by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, everyone in Palestine is disabled right now. Whether from famine and lack of clean
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Challenging times for disabled people and unpaid carers using direct payments (DPs): One family’s diary
In January 2021 Ben and I wrote a blog about the difficulties we faced in lockdown. Love, care and common sense got us through the Covid crisis. We were looking forward to better days. We weren’t expecting another crisis so soon! But come 2022, as an older carer, I needed to think about strengthening Ben’s
The Advantages of Motor Vehicles for Disabled People (or why taking away our parking in city centres is disabling)
Thanks York Accessibility Action for this important post about why disabled people may need their vehicle, and how taking away parking is disabling us. Please note, you can download a longer version of this post. This post will offer a condensed version. In recent years we have seen an increasing number of local authorities explicitly
Daily living, work and the power of reasonable adjustments
We recently published part 1 – But you don’t look disabled – where Lauren introduced herself and talked about not looking disabled. Now, in this blog, she’s focusing on work and daily living. Daily life isn’t that easy. This may shock you, but I do work. I love my current job and have the reasonable
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“But you don’t look disabled…”
We’ve been talking to York Ending Stigma recently about their work and also what it’s like to have a physical impairment and poor mental health. Lauren, one of York Ending Stigma’s champions, has kindly written about this, and ideas of what disability looks like, for us. “But you don’t look disabled…” I’ve heard this quite
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